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The Far Side

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] everett@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This one was posted just a few months ago and sparked some good discussion.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The comment that stood out to me was someone saying "but that was 44 years ago". I was a teenager then and poor people didn't sell pencils on the street in 1980 either. It was an old trope from the 40s? 50s? Much like I've never seen an organ grinder with a monkey or poor children selling matches.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Poor kids still sell matches and chicklets in Tijuana.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've seen children selling gum in Tijuana but not matches. Bars gave them away last time I was there. Which was over 20 years ago to be fair.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You see this on trains in Argentina. I have also seen it in Seattle, but some years ago. I don’t think it’s that common but I suspect that it used to be.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Typical interview question for a sales job is: “sell me this pen”

[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago